Alabama’s tomato crop is rotting due to the mass exodus of immigrant workers following that state’s draconian new anti-immigrant law. Contrary to popular sentiment, immigration is good for the economy. I wish people could understand this very simple fact: immigration is good for business. Indeed, an open-borders policy that freed up movement of labor across […]
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is staving off attacks on all fronts, including recent revelations about his family’s hunting camp which have drawn accusations of racism to the GOP candidate. While these attacks may indeed be off the mark, as Perry’s camp claims, they are far from the only blows the Republican governor is taking. Ironically, […]
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Alyssa Rosenberg thinks Men in Black might just be the best progressive immigration film out there: The movie’s immigrants aren’t merely saintly. They’re cranky newsstand attendants, family people who break laws to try to get their wives and kids out of the way of harm, cranky elementary school teachers. The Bug’s a conservative nightmare of […]
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